The Military Committee agrees to open coastal road and withdraw foreign fighters.

Sirt, 12 November, 2020 (Lana) The Joint Military Committee (5+5) agreed at the end of its meetings at its permanent headquarters in Sirt on Thursday to open the coastal road and remove mercenaries and foreign fighters from the lines of contact. Salim Raad, head of the security reform sector at the UN mission in Libya, said at a press conference in the presence of the committee members that the military Committee had set two phases to implement its agreements, including opening the coastal road and securing the movement of civilians, and the second to remove all mercenaries and foreign fighters and assemble them in Tripoli and Benghazi in preparation for their departure from Libyan territory. The United Nations official explained that the Joint Military Committee had tasked the Subcommittee with evacuating mercenaries and foreign fighters from the lines of contact, withdrawing vehicles and heavy weapons from the target area, opening the coastal road, and returning troops stationed on the road to its units in coordination with the Security Arrangements Committee after it had been evacuated from mercenaries and foreign fighters. The head of the SECURITY REFORM SECTOR of the UNSMIL revealed that the second phase will begin immediately after the implementation of the first phase, which includes the departure of foreign fighters and their departure from Libyan territory, and the adoption of security arrangements provided by the subcommittee on the entire area of contact to open the coastal road and facilitate the movement of civilians. =Lana=